The Journey Is More Important Than The Beginning Or The End.

The Road Trip of Road Trips
Listening to: Vertigo by U2

Every time I go to Molly's I always write of the time, from when I leave, to when I get back. Everyone has seen movies where teens go on a road trip with a mission at hand, and everyone has seen the unbelievable events that happen to them. Never do you hear of these actually happening though. . . until now.

This last weekend Molly was having a Halloween party at her house. I asked David if he would like to accompany me there and as soon as I mentioned a big mall, and hot chicks, he was in. I worked my ass off Friday and I was working late that day too. Molly wanted me down there that night, and the only thing I could do was go with her demand (because I love her OH so much). Dave picked me up from work, I ran to my house, packed clothes, and we were out of there. I didn't even shower after work. That's how cramped for time we were. We gas’d up at the gas station and then I realized we forgot blankets and pillows. So we had to go back. I grabbed them and ran out. We were finally on the road.

Since 7th grade, Dave and I have always talked of a road trip together. Granted it was a 3 hour drive (wow.... So daring) it was fun as hell. The way down was dark and the whole time we talked of videogames, memories, videogames, changes in our lives, and the flavors of cigars and alcohol. At the same time we listened to music and acted like morons as we sped past traffic. Drivers gave us the weirdest look while we danced in our seats as we passed them.

We arrived about 11:30 pm and Molly didn't wait to smother my face in kisses and squeeze the life out of me (I seriously had trouble breathing). David was introduced to everyone, and it was shortly after we all had to go to bed. Sucks ... oh well. I woke up the next morning to Molly kissing my forehead and I thought it was me rolling over hitting my head on my nightstand (I sometimes do that). She crawled into bed with me and we cuddled lovingly *smirk*. She woke Dave up (he said she was weird about it... but he doesn't remember because it wasn’t important to him, lol) and we all showered, ate breakfast, and then left for the Mall (Hell as Molly puts it). Molly's cousin Mark (not the evil bastard from previous posts) came with us. He looks, acts, and sounds amazingly like Kenny H, a fellow student of our graduating class. That was really creepy. We also went to a leather store which was having HUGE sales. I told Dave the coat he was looking at wasn’t made of real leather. He then went and asked the lady "Is this made of real leather?" The lady went off and said "WELL THIS IS A LEATHER STORE..." Lol I get him into so many predicaments. We wandered around and even stopped to have lunch.

The rest of the day was setting up for the Halloween party. I bought a pumpkin and Molly sat with me as I gutted it, and carved it. ^_^ Anime Vampire Jack-O-Lantern. The girls (Leslie and Kelli) showed up. Leslie brought a friend named Alyssa with her. All three are really cool. I decided to go as a gothic Vampire in a trench coat. In order to do this I needed eye-liner and a pale face. Betsy needed some blood so we all traveled to the gags n gifts shop.

On the way there, Dave, Betsy and I rode in Dave's car while all the girls got in Leslie's jeep. They were in front of us and Dave and I wanted to sing idiot boyfriend to them over the phone. When we got them to tell us their cell by holding up fingers, we called them. The problem was it was the wrong number and I ended up getting the voicemail of "Sheriff Ken Prince" which is my moms boss. Holy Sweet Jesus in Heaven. I got my mom's bosses number by mistake, halfway across the state. Freaky. Weird devilish night for sure. I also have never seen so many freaks gathered into one room

Molly put the make up on my eyes because well, I am a guy and I would've done it wrong. I was called gay.... I WAS A GOTHIC VAMPIRE.... grrrr.... the night was fun though. I played some DDR, darts, air hockey, bumper pool, and made out with Molly. The usual. David and Molly's friend Leslie were spending a lot of time together also I noticed. I always have a lot of fun when I am with her and her friends. Even just sitting there hanging out is fun. Well eventually everyone left because they had curfues, and it was just Molly, Dave and I again. We ended up learning that when Dave went out to say goodnight to Leslie at her car, they kissed and he got her cell number. WOOT!

After a while, Molly's mom made her go off to bed, and Dave and I hung out downstairs. A half hour later Molly snuck back down and eventually we fell asleep. Eventually.... While we were sleeping, she ended up pinching my arm between her shoulder and the carpet. I woke up almost in tears, and it was lucky for her that she was on my arm because I have "Ryan Combat Mode" on to where I would wake up swinging thinking it's Ryan doing something to me. lol. I love her ^_^'

Sunday morning, we woke up had breakfast and Leslie came back over. We planned on going to the movies but instead we all just sat on the couch. Molly and I did our thing and Dave and Leslie did theirs. Funny how plans change....

We must've been in that basement for about 6 hours. No food, no sun light... like creatures of the underworld. We "watched" The Last Crusade, and Ice Age while down there. Dave had to work that night so we had to plan on an early leave. It's a good thing too.... Dave threw my checkbook and we lost it so I HAD to find it.

I would have to say, this part of our trip was the craziest though. We drove home. Both pumped about the time we had down there. It really was a blast. Best Halloween yet. The whole way home we talked of girls, experiences, video games, crazy shit, and what would be funny if it happened. We got Arbies for dinner and we were making pretty good time. We must've been doing 80 the whole way. We even listened to old videogame soundtracks I had with me. It didn't help when we arrived into Grand Rapids and started discussing how crazy the road system there is if you didn't know your way. Luckily for us, we knew. Dave kept asking me "Dude, why is Muskegon so far away? We are doing 80....?" I pulled out my map and I looked at a road sign. As we flew by I caught I-96 so I knew we were on the right road. Looking at the map I followed the only other road out of Grand Rapids and I jokingly said "Wouldn't it suck if we were WAAAAY down by (some small town I picked off the map, past South Haven)?" Just then I look up and I see that same name I picked out, with 11 miles next to it. Our jaws just dropped. I took another glance at the road sign as we were only doing 55 now, and it wasn't I-96, it was 196!!!! WE WERE HALF WAY TO CHICAGO!!! Holy jeebus.... we made a quick turn around and going over my map I told Dave where to go. We would've made it back just in time, but we didn't know for sure so Dave called into work.

Being he didn't have to be anywhere, we stopped at the Walmart in Muskegon. I bought Dance Dance Revolution Extreme for the PS2 and a couple of Sobes. On our way out to the car, some goth druggy people were loitering. One heavy set chick in a black night dress thing, pulled aplastic sword our and challenged me to a duel. I waved my sobe at her and asked "With my sobe!?" She asked where my sword was and I replied with "Oh gee, I must've left it in my other tunic.... my bad." We took off back towards my house, the whole way laughing at the stupidest thing we ever did. Not even Ryan woulda done that. Yet for some reason, we were proud of ourselves. Go figure eh? I can't wait till our next road trip... in another week or two we will be driving down to Leslie's house for her birthday. *grin* We WILL take the right road this time. Maybe even bring our Guitars.

Blogged by Marcus Morris at 1:24 PM